INTERNATIONAL: CHINA PILGRIMAGE - Dogen and Hanshan Sites

Travel to China with Sensei Kaz Tanahashi and Sensei Peter Levitt April 18 - May 3, 2017. Visit Tiantong Monastery where the great thirteenth-century Japanese Zen Master Dogen was trained by his teacher Rujing. We also visit the nearby cave where the legendary hermit-poet Hanshan lived and used the cave walls to write his poems.

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Episode Description: This talk rich in poems and stories spans seemingly far-flung topics — haiku, conflict transformation theory, the nature and uses of beauty — with an integral logic that renders them resoundingly mutually relevant. John Paul says the heart of both haiku and peacebuilding is to find simplicity on the far side of complexity: […]

This autumn, Roshi Joan will return to Humla and Limi with Peg, Roshi Enkyo and an extraordinary group of doctors and nurses and friends to serve at Citta Hospital and other clinics in this vulnerable region of Nepal. You can read more about their work with Citta here. Roshi and the Nomads Clinic has been […]

With a powerful intention toward cultivating spiritual depth and skill in the practice of chaplaincy, I joined Roshi Joan and a sangha of meditators on pilgrimage to the Mustang Valley this autumn. My oldest child, Sam, also attended the pilgrimage with the goals and intentions of a 22-year-old man on the brink of graduating from […]

Roshi, the clinicians, and group returned from Mustang and an extraordinary month of service in the Nomads Clinic in the high Himalayas. She is very grateful for the amazing work the clinicians did and for the support of so many good friends at home. She is in Dharamsala this week co-moderating the Mind and Life […]

We recently received this report from Astrid Hovden, who is a PhD fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, doing ethnographic research on the religious traditions of Limi in north western Nepal. Astrid was doing research in Halji when she met Roshi Joan Halifax on her pilgrimage to Mount Kailash. This happy encounter led to […]